kennywtelejazz
The reading glasses thing was an easy one to adapt too and I've been there for about 10 years and counting …
Getting gray , I'm OK with that even though the tree line is thinning out a little on top of old smokey …
One change that is effing me up the most is I used to have a nice round butt that used to hold my pants up just fine.
Now the thing decided to get flat and move over to the front where my stomach is
I'm like WTF …I'm way to young to be wearing suspenders …
Kenny
LOL Kenny, I'm sitting here cracking up at this thread and where it's gone. :) I can relate on the butt thing....it's probably because we sit at our computers for too long! LOL! I always got told "you got a perfect butt for a dude" (whatever that means) because when I sat in a chair, it left little heart prints. LOL! Now that I'm getting older and I've been smoke free for almost 3 years, the ole butt just ain't what it used to be. Hahaha! I wear those one size fits all sports pants...they seems to be perfect for butts that become tenants in our stomachs! ;)
Rain
I made peace with the notion of wearing glasses, even though I recently had to get a second pair, this one for reading.
Up until my late 30's, I was blessed (or cursed) with an extremely fast metabolism. No matter what I did, I never gained weight. Then I quit smoking and turned 40. And I have to work a lot harder not to put on weight, even if I have a most healthy diet and workout an hour a day every day.
The hairline IS receding, but I can't say that I'm too worried about it.
But you know what my pet peeve is? Hair in spots where there used to be none. I even bought my own tweezers a few years ago (too bad I couldn't find zircon encrusted ones).
And hair in those spot seem to grow thicker and quicker all the time.
One of the worst spot is just around the ear hole - those drive me nut, though they're easy to pluck.
Top of the ear - some long ones grow there... Thin enough but that spot is surprisingly sensitive.
Nostrils. Thick as heck and driving me crazy. First couple of times were painful but my nostrils are now immune to pain for the most part.
Shoulders and back. Why oh why? I leave the pleasure to my lovely lady who loves to pluck them.
BTW, suspenders are cool. They've been a part of my attire for well over 10 years. Love them. :)
Rain...man, this is me to the T! Fast metab still thank God, can relate to what happens after quitting the cigs, (I've gained 12 lbs...but so far it's been better for me. I was 146, so 158 makes me look and feel a little less scrawny lol) I use reading glasses and the hair thing.....dude, let's just say, we all need to embrace man-scaping because it is the in thing today anyway. That "No No" thing is pretty killer. If you can't afford one at like $250, there's a "Yes" for $40 that does the same thing. LOL!!! It actually keeps hair from coming back in those places where you never dreamed of getting it. After 4-6 times, it gets less and less.
I've always hated hair on the back on my triceps....I never had much, but still never liked seeing anything there. That Yes thing.....5 times, it's not grown back. Hair anywhere you don't want it....5-6 times and it gets thinner and thinner and comes back super slow.
For Susan: Yeah, our eyes are definitely getting worse...but I'm going to challenge you with something. If you have time, try this and you'll see I'm not crazy. Ok, well I am a little...but....lol....
One day, I was cleaning my basement up. I found magazines from the 80's. Music mags, car mags, old books etc. Upon examining them, one thing jumped out at me that I have never noticed......
The fonts were WAY bigger! Today, they jam and cram as much as they can in a book or magazine. There are less pages and smaller text. This keeps costs down. So it's not just that we are losing our vision.....we are losing text size as well. Do you have any old mags? See how well you can read them without any glasses or magnifying glasses.
Here's another. I'm in a Chinese restaurant with my girl. The menu there even has small text. She's laughing at me telling me I need glasses because she's a bit younger than me. I do something simple that changes the game. Yeah, ok....I'm losing my vision but I have quite a few things against me as I approach my 50's....text size and......darkness! I turn on my cell phone flashlight, and low and behold....I can see the menu clearly! I don't seem to remember ordering food in the darkness years ago. Probably because years ago, the economy was good and the restaurants were nice looking. Now that they are older and the economy is crappy for most people, they dim the lights so you can't see what the place looks like. It's not just there, but I notice this everywhere I go, even the 5-star joints that end up costing me $400 for me and my girl.
I learned this when I was doing side remodeling jobs with my cousin at Denny's, Red Lobster, Olive Garden, Carraba's, Outback Steakhouse, Longhorn Steakhouse etc. What you see when those lights are bright...will scare the heck out of you. Dim those lights....it's like you are in a completely different establishment. So yeah, we may be losing our vision a bit....but we are getting help and are being tricked into believing we're worse off than we are.
Last thing Susan....I just looked at one of my old cable boxes that Comcast never took back. I can read the serial number without glasses. I just looked at my current one....it looks like ants ran through mud and walked all over it. I needed a magnifying glass to read it. You're fine, trust me. :)
-Danny